Correction: My inner 12-year-old wants to see this.
Shit
Beatles engineer Geoff Emerick, dead at 72.
18 Years Ago…
Radiohead ditched their guitars and released Kid A. So now it’s old enough to buy cigarettes and vote. They grow up so fast…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnfPaaMR6Qc
How They Made The Exploding Head In Scanners
https://youtu.be/0O_KrHjcF_c
BOOM!
How Bruce Thomas Came Up With That Glorious Bass Riff
As Thomas tells The Peverett Phile blargh …
The riff wasn’t totally spontaneous, it was sort of contrived [from riffs] I’d been listening to at the time. It’s kind of weird. If you listen to “The Price of Love” by the Everly Brothers, you’ll get the rhythmic pattern.
And if you listen to “You Gotta Lose” by Richard Hell & The Voidoids, you put those notes to the riff you get “Pump It Up.” It’s a hybrid riff.
Then I was left with a half a bar so I added “You Really Got Me,” which was one of the best songs ever written. So, that was it.
I love this shit. Everybody rips off somebody – some are just more creative about it than others.
Quote Of The Day
“I want to set forth my Mathematical Theory of Line Dance Complexity versus Intelligence, which states: ‘The complexity of a given line dance is inversely proportional to the average IQ of the people doing it.'”
From Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs
The Screaming Nudes And The Pit Of The Damned
How many swastikas can you find?
MAD’s “Punk Rock Group” Of The Year
I’ve posted this here and there before. Deal with it.
Antiques Road Show
The way it was meant to be. Clean out your garage, maybe you’ve got some treasures like these…
Classic Album Sunday On Thursday
Check it out, you bastards.
BMG’s Art of The Album series presents a unique insight into the making of a seminal album. Recorded on the 8th June 2016, Dave Vanian and Captain Sensible of The Damned sat down with Colleen Murphy from Classic Album Sundays to discuss the stories, recording and impact of one punk’s very first album release.